The first table below looks at the demand for WLAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WLAN over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Staffordshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless LAN (WLAN)
Rank 65 63 -
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 6 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 1.003% 0.351% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.882% 4.255% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 0
Average salary £30,000 £40,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +23.07%
All Communications & Networking
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
102 47 126
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 17.06% 8.246% 22.11%
Number of salaries quoted 92 43 103
Average salary £36,250 £40,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.37% +3.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £24,700 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £62,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
WLAN
West Midlands

WLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing WLAN across the Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Staffordshire WLAN Jobs Demand Trend

WLAN
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WLAN across the Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire WLAN Salary Trend

WLAN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WLAN within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cannock - 3 £30,000 -
WLAN
West Midlands

WLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire region citing WLAN also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited WLAN.

1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) Wireless
2 4 (66.67%) LAN
2 4 (66.67%) WAN
3 3 (50.00%) ITIL
3 3 (50.00%) MCSE
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco
3 3 (50.00%) CCNP
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (50.00%) MPLS
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (33.33%) ISA Server
4 2 (33.33%) SAN
4 2 (33.33%) NetApp
4 2 (33.33%) Veritas
4 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (33.33%) VMware
4 2 (33.33%) CCNA
4 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (33.33%) IBM
4 2 (33.33%) LDAP
4 2 (33.33%) VBScript
4 2 (33.33%) IIS
4 2 (33.33%) Web Services
4 2 (33.33%) DHCP
4 2 (33.33%) Kerberos
4 2 (33.33%) SNMP
4 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) Backup Exec

WLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire region citing WLAN also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited WLAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) Wireless
2 4 (66.67%) LAN
2 4 (66.67%) WAN
3 3 (50.00%) MPLS
4 2 (33.33%) LDAP
4 2 (33.33%) DHCP
4 2 (33.33%) Kerberos
4 2 (33.33%) SNMP
4 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) SAN
4 2 (33.33%) VLAN
4 2 (33.33%) Network Security
4 2 (33.33%) NAS
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Support
2 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (33.33%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Software Deployment
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 1 (16.67%) Six Sigma
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
3 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
3 1 (16.67%) Network Design
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (50.00%) MCSE
1 3 (50.00%) CCNP
2 2 (33.33%) CCNA
2 2 (33.33%) MCITP
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) ISA Server
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) NetApp
2 2 (33.33%) Veritas
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper
Cannock, Staffordshire
My client is currently looking for a Cisco, CCNP, LAN, WAN Network Analyst / Network Engineer to join their growing team managing the operations and development of their Network...
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: £3000 - £30000 per annum + car/allowance (£4,800) + benefits
Posted: 12 May 2013